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For Immediate Release VISIBLE THEATREpresents “True Story Project: FAITH” 11 perspectives on Faith spanning race, gender, sexuality and ‘ability’ Supported by the National Endowment of the Arts and the City of New York’s Department of Cultural Affairs Following the triumph of last year’s provocative and enormously engaging True Story Project: SEX, Visible Theatre continues in its mission of “celebrating alternative perspectives, challenging perceptions and providing unique insight into the human condition,” by presenting its fourth autobiographical storytelling work, “True Story Project: FAITH,” to colleges and organizations through out the tri-state area beginning in March, 2009. Including both able bodied and disabled story tellers of profoundly diverse backgrounds, the tour will culminate in a three-week run at The Parker at Algonquin Theatre in Manhattan. Shows followed by a talkback are Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 8pm - May 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23. Saturday, May 16th at 4pm, there will be a talk on Disability and Faith presented Chicago-based playwright and NEA Guest Artist Todd Bauer. The Algonquin Theatre is located at 123 East 24th Street, near Lexington Avenue. Suggested donation of $15 at the door. The theatre capacity is small so reservations are required. Please call 212-615-3199. Conceived by Artistic Director, Krista Smith, True Story Project: FAITH features a diverse ensemble of twelve professional actors, including actors with disabilities who write and perform their unabashedly honest autobiographical stories with the central core of faith. Much more than a consideration of spirituality and religion alone, the actors weigh issues of faith and intimacy, faith and family and faith and the body. Ensemble members include: Gregg Mozgala, David Wagner, Joe Sims, Elizabeth Treston. Dacyl Acevedo, Angela DeMatteo, Julia O’Brien, Timothy Wang, Lisa Wartenberg, Todd Bauer, and Xian Horn. Directed by Krista Smith and Julia O’Brien. Previous True Story Projects have been performed to great acclaim at New York University, Hunter College, Queens College, Brooklyn Tech, Kingsborough College, Queensborough College, Manhattan College, Chashama, HERE Arts Center, Blue Heron Theatre, Abingdon Theatre and at City Hall to commemorate the Americans with Disabilities Act. True Story Project: Faith will tour to venues in all five boroughs and beyond, culminating in a three week run at The Parker at Algonquin Theatre,. Visible Theatre is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City’s Department of Cultural Affairs, NYSCA and many other generous contributors and committed to “…A vision directed toward confronting issues of social exclusion and a mission to foster long-term development of provocative theatre art, Visible Theatre enfolds all bodies in its theatre training, workshops, and new play development.”—Susan Tenneriello, Baruch University, Theatre Journal 58:3 (October 2006). To watch a True Story Project promo, visit our website at http://www.visibletheatre.org/tsp/truestory.html To book a performance call 212-615-3199 or email visible1@mac.com |
